Gallery admission is free for everyone on the first Saturday of each month from 10 am to 5 pm, with a variety of family activities scheduled from 10 am to 3 pm. Let your imagination wander as you explore all the spaces at the Walker. Map out your favorite spot, explore the galleries, and listen to… More
Come in from the cold and see some art: Free gallery admission now through February 7.
Dedicated to deepening and enhancing the experience of the arts for people of all ages, the Walker offers an array of engaging education programs, community-building efforts, and interpretive projects. More
Dialogue / Interview
Making an Entrance: A Design Conversation
Dec 2016Dialogue / Interview
Comments Section: Curating the Internet
Mar 2016Dialogue / Interview
Comments Section: Cash Rules Everything Around Me
Feb 2016Lecture
Lars Bang Larsen: Turning on the Modern, or Against It?
Nov 2015Field Guide
Inspired by Whitten: Painting with Ed and Jeremy
Oct 2015Field Guide
Walker People’s Archive: Walker-Bryant Art Workshop
Sep 2015Trailer
The Walker Needs You
Aug 2015Field Guide
Cute Cat Alerts
Aug 2015
Field Guide
Inspired by Whitten: Painting with Ed and Jeremy
Oct 2015Field Guide
Walker People’s Archive: Walker-Bryant Art Workshop
Sep 2015Field Guide
Cute Cat Alerts
Aug 2015Field Guide
Catvidfest 2015: The Official Reel
Aug 2015Field Guide
CatVid Recap or Thanks for the Meow-mories!
Aug 2015Field Guide
Interview with David Perez, Saintly City Cat Photographer
Aug 2015Field Guide
Catvidfest Interview: Jim Davis and Garfield the Cat
Aug 2015Field Guide
The 2015 Internet Cat Video Festival How-To Guide
Aug 2015
Dialogue / Interview
Making an Entrance: A Design Conversation
Dec 2016Dialogue / Interview
Comments Section: Curating the Internet
Mar 2016Dialogue / Interview
Comments Section: Cash Rules Everything Around Me
Feb 2016Lecture
Lars Bang Larsen: Turning on the Modern, or Against It?
Nov 2015Trailer
The Walker Needs You
Aug 2015Dialogue / Interview
Motionpoems
May 2015Dialogue / Interview
In Conversation: Ron Athey
Mar 2015Commentary
Works for New Spaces (1971)
Oct 2014
Featured Event
Featured Article
Dialogue / Interview
Making an Entrance: A Design Conversation
The Walker’s light-filled new main entrance was designed to dramatically enhance visitor circulation and strengthen the Walker’s connection to the neighboring Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Join Joan Soranno and John Cook of HGA Architects and Engineers, Thomas Fisher of the Minnesota Design Center… More
Sasha Archibald
Feline Darlings and the Anti-Cute
“YouTube speaks a tale of catness thoroughly at odds with feline history,” writes curator Sasha Archibald. For her contribution to the book, Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong, she looks to art, literature, and pop culture to show how the cat’s… More
Sarah Hromack
It’s Complicated: The Institution as Publisher
What does it mean for a museum to function as a publisher now, in 2015? Publishing is no less complicated an endeavor within an institutional context than it is in the external “real” world, where the presence of a consumer-grade… More
Lodanne Assad
Tour the 2015 Edition of Walker on the Green
Walker on the Green: Artist-Designed Mini Golf is back for another summer. This year’s course, open now through September 7, features 14 favorite designs from the past—including Be A Sculpture, Move Your Hole!, and The Uncertainty… More
Paul Schmelzer
Further Speculation on Digital Arts Media’s Future(s)
Brian Droitcour, Willa Köerner, Antwaun Sargent, and others weigh in on digital art publishing’s possible futures. More
Mia Lopez
A Culture Wars Chronicle
As identity politics made their way into galleries and museums in the ’80s and ’90s, social conservatives took note, lashing out at artists like Robert Mapplethorpe, Karen Finley, and Ron Athey for work that addressed sexuality, multiculturalism, and LGBT rights… More
Jeff Chang
The Ruins of the Culture Wars
“How has the national culture changed over the past half-century that we could elect a black president? Just as important,” writes Jeff Chang in his new book Who We Be: The Colorization of America, “how has it not changed?” Chronicling… More
